student at the beginning: J. MAYER H.

Jürgen Mayer Hermann is a german architect and designer. He was born on the 30th October 1965. He studied in the Stuutgart University, The Copper Union in New-York and Princeton University.

He founded " J. MAYER H. Architects " in 1996 in Berlin. The main preoccupation of his work is the relationship between the human body, technology and nature form for a new production of space.

He won some awards, national and international, like the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award-Emerging-Architect-Special-Mention-2003 for example.

A J. MAYER H.'s project that we really love is Dupli.Casa.
It was built between 2005 and 2008 near from Marbach in Germany. The implantaion of this house is based on the footprint of the previously house which was dated from 1984.
This villa is composed of 3 levels. The lines of it seems to be infinitely so we don't see the limit between the house and the garden. There is not a contrast with the shapes of the house but there is a contrast with the colours. Inside and outside are both based on a black and white contrast. Light only creates a shhaded off.Every room is turned towards the forest with a specific point of view. In this way, every window becomes a frame.

I like this house because in every view I have the impression that is a new house : sometimes I can see 2 levels, the others times there are 3 levels. The nature is very important in this project. The colours come from outdoor and with the large windows people can feel like they are out.
-Laure-

Me what I like in this house it's its complexity and at the same time its pure forms only in white and black. -Eugénie-